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What's the shortest distance from Sydney to Perth? If you’re driving and take the right roads, you can make the trip from Sydney to Perth in about 3900 kilometres. But there are other ways of looking at the question, and other ways of answering it, too.

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A million dollars for an imaginary game of pool The things mathematicians imagine are often perfect. A mathematical sphere is smoother than any ball we could ever make, because it is made of ideas, not atoms. But mathematicians don’t just imagine simple shapes. This year’s winner of the million-dollar Abel prize is famous for imagining a mathematical pool table!

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What's the shortest distance from Sydney to Perth? If you’re driving and take the right roads, you can make the trip from Sydney to Perth in about 3900 kilometres. But there are other ways of looking at the question, and other ways of answering it, too.

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What's the shortest distance from Sydney to Perth? If you’re driving and take the right roads, you can make the trip from Sydney to Perth in about 3900 kilometres. But there are other ways of looking at the question, and other ways of answering it, too.